From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Apr 18 12:55:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from drawbridge.ascend.com (drawbridge.ascend.com [198.4.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8900B37B422 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:55:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simonw@lucent.com) Received: from fw-ext.ascend.com (fw-ext [198.4.92.5]) by drawbridge.ascend.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA12928; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:55:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russet.ascend.com by fw-ext.ascend.com via smtpd (for drawbridge.ascend.com [198.4.92.1]) with SMTP; 18 Apr 2001 19:55:44 UT Received: from wopr.eng.ascend.com (wopr.eng.ascend.com [206.65.212.178]) by russet.ascend.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA22252; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from simonw-sun (simonw-sun.eng.ascend.com [135.140.26.74]) by wopr.eng.ascend.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA02732; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eng.ascend.com by eng.ascend.com Message-ID: <3ADDF13E.F37BA845@lucent.com> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:55:42 -0700 From: Simon Walton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Jesper Skriver Subject: Re: Modem on laptop... References: <200104181832.f3IIWVc02770@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kevin Oberman wrote: > > THANKS! This is (or will be, once I get it down-loaded and installed) > great! You might want to make sure it works before you say that! > > Are you considering putting it into a port? If not, I think I'd like > to do so (still in my copious free time). Do you see any problem with > making it a port? > > Whether the mWave code could be included in the base system, I can't > say, but it's of sufficiently limited interest that it's probably > better placed in the ports tree, anyhow. The IBM guys seem agreeable to releasing a combined source. It would be pretty easy to make the daemon compile under both OSes, but the kernel driver would probably have to be separate. I intend to attempt this at some point. On the other hand, I'm not going to discourage you if you want to make it a port. One problem might be that it has a dependency on linuxthreads, and the port for linuxthreads assumes the full OS source is installed (not just the kernel). On a laptop it's unlikely you'll have a full OS source. Also I'm going to do a bit more work on the driver, so if you do attempt a port stay in touch to make sure you're up to date. Simon > > Thanks again! > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > > > Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:24:03 -0700 > > From: Simon Walton > > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > Well, a bit of research shows that the WinModem on the 600E is based > > > on the IBM ACP mWave modem, not a Lucent. IBM has open-sourced drivers > > > for this chip available for Linux, so it might be possible to convert > > > it to run on FreeBSD, but I don't have the time to learn to do it, > > > let alone to do it. > > > > I did this port a little while ago and it seems to work ok > > on my 600E. IBM have just posted my version of the source on their > > web site alongside the linux version: > > > > > > http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/mwave/ > > > > Simon > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message